Star Trek

Astronomer has found alot more galaxies, hiding behind dust clouds in the universe.. Hey maybe there will be a Big Crunch after all




Missing matter

Yes that was an interesting find! I am still baffled that 99.999 of our universe is empty space because .99999 repeating is equal to 1 so then 99.999 should be equal to 100?

Does this mean that the need for Dark matter to exist is gone?

No science will continue to discover new matter in space as the technology advances. Quantum and Sub-Quantum mechanics will be the leaders in discovering new and exotic forms of matter that Einstein's theories cannot postulate because of the physics involved.

Experiments at the LHC may help answer fundamental questions such as why Albert Einstein's theory of relativity -- which describes the world on a large scale [or a general base of understanding the elementary only]-- doesn't jibe with quantum mechanics, which deals with matter far too small to see.

http://www.cnn.com/2010....pt=Sbin

I'd say within the next twenty years that we will be able to understand and even manipulate gravity and dark matter to our advantage of propelling a ship near or faster than the speed of light.

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I suppose it could mean there's less dark matter than we thought in a universal sense, but doesn't account for all of it. Remembering it was first postulated to explain the rotation of the outer edge of the Milky Way galaxy being too fast for the amount of observable matter within it. This could not be caused by previously unseen galaxies, and must be some kind of unseen (or dark...) matter.

Correct!! What is interesting is the Critical matter density , omega, set whether the universe will continue to expand forever or collapse into the big crunch is now closer to value needed for collapse.